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If it's related to a long-term contract, I'll create a company-specific Obsidian vault which I'll later sync to a org-wide Notion database.
If it's personal I usually add any relevant documentation/diagrams to the repo itself under a docs folder.
That said, most of the time it's just new tabs in VSCode. Most of the time I'm not saving them as documents. I've tried a couple of times to install plugins that support a "notes" feature, but none of them have ever really held my attention.
Surprisingly notes are a lot like browser bookmarks, they work pretty well as a write-only medium. An LLM search function for tabs would make it perfect.
If I want to run command-line utilities on it, I save it to a file (instead of putting in Sublime) named 1, 2, or rarely 3.
I also use apple notes for quick & dirty notes, especially if I have to copy&paste or need to remember links. I tend to use a single note and clear it periodically, I'm not trying to accumulate knowledge here.
40+ unsaved tabs in Notepad++, mixed stuff, containing keywords about the things I'm working right now, 2-3 line descriptions about an idea or how to proceed with something in the future, copy-pasted and "annotated" fragments of logs or code under reverse engineering (would do most of this stuff by hand but have an awful handwriting). Plus a booklet to scribe quick ideas, play with an algorithm in my head, and draw s…